Buckle



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Buckle.

No. 238,150. Patented Feb. 22,1881.y

INVENTOR WITNESSES l ZM ATTORNEYS N. PETERS. PHOTO-LITHGGRAF'HER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' ABBAM OWEN, OF TEXANA, TEXAS.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,150, dated February 22, 1881.

Application filed December 11, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ABRAM OWEN, of Texana, in the county of Jackson and` State of Texas, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Buckles; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is a perspective view. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the device applied.

This invention relates to buckles; and it consists in the construction hereinafter described.

In the annexed drawings, A is a buckle7 having end pieces, B B', and side pieces, C C, the former being straight, and the latter having straight bodies a a and curved ends b b, being bent at c c'. At o o there runs across the buckle a bar, D, being arranged upon one face of the said buckle-that one on which the side pieces are curved. At c c there runs across the buckle, upon its opposite face, another bar,

E, which is wider than bar D.

- Secured to bar D is the loose tongue F, which bears against the end piece, B, and has motion upon the same side or face of the buckle as its bar D.

Projecting from each side of bar E are the fixed studs G and H, the latter having the neck h andv button 7c, said studs extending in opposite directions from the bar E, and in substantially the same horizontal plane therewith.

The pivoted tongue F and rigid studs G H vare arranged in line with one another along the middle line of the buckle and n parallel to the sides of the same. By giving the buckle the curve described `and making the studs to conform to the same the stationary or fixed strap will be held firmly and kept from slipping off from its fastening.

In use the straps are arranged upon the buckle thus: The fixed strap L has cut in it the hole Zand slots up. This strap is then slipped in the buckle from its concave side and slot o slipped over loose tongue F. The end in which is hole l is then pulled back and said hole slipped over stud H, slot n allowing requisite play of the strap. The strap is then pulled taut by its other end and slot p slipped over stud Gr and then under end piece, B; or the strap 1na5r be first slipped under end piece, B, and then over tongue F and fastend, as described, in either case being held the same by the tongue and studs. By this construction the fixed strap is held rmly, and, surrounding the buckle, protects it from the weather.

The loose strap is slipped under end piece, B', secured by tongue F, and then run under piece B. Anotherway to hold the iixed strap is to run the end of said strap over end piece, B', and slip the slot p over stud H and then stud Gr. The end is then run over D and slot n over loose tongue F, and the eye t fastened over stud H and the strap pulled taut. The loose strap is put in as described.

I am aware that a loose tongue and a fixed stud have been connected with the same crossbar in a buckle to which the holding-strap has been connected without stitching, and also that a xed stud and a loose tongue have been connected to separate bars in the same class of buckles, and I claim neither of said construe tions herein.

What I claim is- In a buckle having the curved side bars and straight end bars and the cross-bar D, the crossbar E, having the fixed stud Gr and. the fixed stud II, with neck h and button k, said studs extending in opposite directions therefrom, and in substantially the same horizontal plane as the bar, combined as set forth.

In `testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

ABRAM OWEN.

.Witnesses:

WILLIAM FORNEY, THoMAs SAMUEL PATTERSON, GEo. F. SIMoNs, JAMES WILLIAMALLEN. 

